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“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.”

“If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Joy Nature Born Natural Consciousness Environment Missing Taught Way Of Thinking Sensory Natural Environment Life Wisdom Missing Out Reconnecting

Author:Michael J Cohen

“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

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Author:Baron d'Holbach

“People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.”

People May Long Nature Born Dog Long Time Essence Cows Sooner Or Later

Book:Black April: A Novel

Source: Black April: A Novel

“Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.”

Nature Born Spring Association Earnest

Author:Laura Gilpin

“When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.”

Body Earth Nature Born Animal Unions Plant Soil Pantheism Interbeing

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.”

Men Philosophy Age Nature Born Phrases Arrogance Biology Conservation Convenience Silent Spring Neanderthals

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought”

Ifs Men Should Trying Running Stars Nature Born Sun Imagine Heard Lucky Moon My Friends Should Have Fishes Glad Each Day Old Man Running Away

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”

“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”

“Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.”

Art Science Nature Born Art Is Observation Investigation Nature And Art

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.”

Men Dream Spirit Nature Born Absolutes Immortality Aspiration Contentment Sparks Portions

Author:Robert Southey

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”